April 29, 2012

penny candy...

Happy weekend everyone! I realize that as you are reading this, your weekend will have come to and end, but I hope it was a wonderful one. As the weather is warming up here, we are spending more and more time outside enjoying the perfectly good temps before they climb to the point where it is a little too uncomfortable to be outside much. My little one loves for me to tell her stories about myself as a child each night before I tuck her in for good and say goodnight. Tonight's story was about what I would spend my few, treasured coins on now and then...bits of change I would earn from doing special tasks around the house without being asked, such as straightening my dad's shoes. I remember my mom taking my little brother and I on errands and if we had to stop for gas, she would always stop at a station called Thrifty C. It was tiny, but had the sweetest, friendliest little lady working inside always. I think her name may have been Lois. Anyway, she had rows and rows and jars and jars of gummies, bubble gum, tootsie rolls, etc. and they were each a penny. So, she'd hand us a little brown bag and we'd get to think over all of the goodies we wanted and make our careful selections of what we were going to spend our coins on. It's so funny that such a simple thing would stay with me for so long...ahhhh, the simple, carefree days of childhood. I often wonder what my little one will remember. Goodness, I love that little lady.

Today's project was created for Frost it Pink. I created a bundle of party packets using Papertrey Ink's Seed Packet die as my base and then piled on the brights, the happys, the fruitys, and the sparkles!

I love bold, bright colors, mixed with vintage touches, images, colors, and distressing...kind of fun for a change.

Before I head, I have a yummy recipe to share with you...I think you'll love it as much as I do. This recipe I will be keeping and using for years to come! I found it on m very most favorite recipe site called Six Sister's Stuff and they are called M&M Samoa Blondies! I didn't have any M&M's floating about, so I just used semi-sweet chocolate chips and holy cow! Just a heavenly, little treat!

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Thanks for sharing the penny candy story. Here's mine. There's a General Store in Lexington MI that we would stop at to get an ice cream when we were heading back to the city after a weekend up at the lake. They had a penny candy counter/case too. Every once in awhile I was allowed to pick out a few things - like stick candy, those little dots stuck on paper... Incredible but true, the General Store is still there and my kids love to go get a little brown paper bag full when we visit in the summer. Of course, things cost a bit more than a penny, but it still takes them forever make their choices about what gets put into their bag. And the girls behind the counter are patient - how fab. I always make sure to get a couple green apple caramel suckers tucked in too. In honor of the Jolly Ranchers I used to pick out as a kid!

So very sweet! Enjoyed your childhood story. I can remember saving my pennies to buy books. I loved the Bobbsey Twins. I would get 25 cents a week and it would take a bit to get enough money together to buy a book but I feel I appreciated the fact of having to save for it.

What a sweet projects today Melissa and I loved your story! When I was a little girl we went on camping trips every summer. There was an ice-cream truck that made it's rounds through the campground. If we missed it my dad would load us up, my uncle & cousins too and chase down the truck. He would tell the man two cones one;for my brother and I.I would pipe up and say 'Daddy I don't want ice-cream I want Cracker Jacks!!

Beautiful projects, Meliss! Thank you for the sweet story from your childhood! I, too, have wonderful memories of going to the itty bitty town my grandparents lived in. The only store was the "Mercantile" where we would go get penny candies or get to really splurge on a 10 cent Jolly Rancher stick! We would then take any coins left over and put them on the train tracks and wait for the train to come by and smash them! Hugs to you and your family!

These are gorgeous! I wish I could make such beautiful little treasures! I'm sure you're little girl is going to have fabulous memories from childhood, your devotion & love for her is so powerful, how could she not?!

I just wanted to say that someone recommended I check out your blog. They were right to do so. Your work is fabolous! We love your use of embellishments. Thank you for your inspiration. I was trying to think of new ways to use tags. This helped me get unstuck and think outside of the box. Now I have tons of ideas of how I can repurpose tags. Slidding them into envelopes was brillant.

Ahhh penny candies! Love your story Melissa! I have similar memories from my childhood. I always start to think of the Good Humor or Ice Cream Man at this time of the year....he will be cruising our neighborhood very soon! :)